Anatomy of a Mac APT attack

Source: Dark Reading

You’ve heard it all before: If you’re a Mac, then you’re immune from most of the latest security threats. That has led some organizations worried about cyberespionage-type attacks to consider ditching their target-prone Windows machines for their Mac iOS counterparts, according to a team of researchers who spoke at Black Hat USA last week in Las Vegas. Mac OS X might have little or no exploits aimed at it right now, but security worry-free Mac users are still susceptible to targeted attacks — especially ones like advanced persistent threat (APT) that use social engineering, according to the researchers.